Seen & Heard

Seen On Broadway:
Wicked
got a pretty wicked reception from the New York press and it’s not hard to see why. It’s also hard not to be fascinated by this ambitious, clever, stunning-looking near-miss of a musical. The source material, Gregory Maguire’s astonishing novel, which purports to tell the backstory of the Wicked Witch of the West (of Wizard of Oz infamy), is surely unadaptable. It’s witches’ brew of theology, philosophy, and politics tied to a fatalistic narrative marked by ...